Writing
The Help, A Dissenting Review
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September 5, 2011
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September 5, 2011
There is much truth in the movie. The dialog, the attitudes, the laws, the houses and decors of the two sides of this story are all spot-on.
Steel and Steam
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March 11, 2011
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March 11, 2011
I was a terrible student.
I rarely did homework but somehow slid by with Cs and just barely advanced from grade to grade.
The More Things Change …
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March 11, 2011
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March 11, 2011
On Saturdays, Dad would sometimes go to the hospital to see a couple of his patients.
The Wiring
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March 11, 2011
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March 11, 2011
East encompassed kindergarten through senior high school. The elementary, East Elementary School, had the right half of the building while the high schools, junior and senior collectively referred to as East High School, had the left.
Fishing Chickasaw Lake
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March 4, 2011
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March 4, 2011
The near-wealthy lived in Chickasaw Gardens just a few blocks from Picardy.
Winter Fun
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December 28, 2008
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December 28, 2008
Some things change, some don’t.
Heavy snowfalls on Picardy Place where I grew up meant no school, sometimes for several days, because Memphis Tennessee was in the mid-south–it had no snow removal equipment.
Synopsis In this international thriller, Blake Spencer is a trouble-shooting software engineer on paid assignment in Wuhan, China.